Hey fellas. I have a question for you. Of our prospects currently in the NHL do you really see any of them as being the next group of core players? I feel Grundstrum and Wagner as the only two. Am I being to impatient?
They're probably a long way away from identifying a new core. Guys like Grundstrom and Wagner and likely not going to be part of a specific core. If there is another championship in the Kings future, there probably isn't one player currently on the team that will be part of it, and it's possible that no player currently anywhere in the organization, at any level, will be part of it. Maybe the youngest of the young guys, but even then, they have to hit on the pick this year. Is Kupari a franchise player? Who knows. If they don't get a top 2 pick, whoever they end up has to be at least really good. Especially if Vilardi is a bust.
But yes, I would say you're impatient. This roster is too big of a mess to worry about it. Let this season finally end first, see what pick they get, and see if they can unload
any of their old, expensive, and unproductive players. I don't think they'll be able to, but who knows. I'd say relax. There's a lot of trash they have to go through.
i dont even understand what he is talking about
the game is 60 minutes long, he averages about 20 minutes a night.
did he just decide to split the difference? the **** is he saying
It is essentially a three-hour day. You come here, you have breakfast and you start getting ready and the actual work on the ice is about 45 minutes if you average everything. What job really lets you do 45 minutes of work? That’s it.
There's probably more context to the quote, but he mentions breakfast, so apparently he's talking about the entire day? If you take the 20 or so minutes in the game, and the pre-game skate, and if there's practice in the morning, then his actual on ice activity might add up to 45 minutes. In the morning practice, everyone might be out there for an hour or whatever, but between standing along the boards, and talking to a coach, and the time after the 20 second burst where they actually do something, they're probably not doing something all that long. Especially for a guy that's played 1000 games, he might be pretty efficient with practice by now. Or, he has bad practice habits. However, all you ever hear is how professional he is, so he's probably ok with the habits. Then again, that could just be hockey people not being objective. Who knows.
That would be my guess if we're trying to make sense of that quote, because yeah, reading that by itself seems to make no sense. It sounds like DL or Sutter. Then if you see them talking, you get a better feel for what they're trying to say, whereas in print it tended to look like rambling.
